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News 2016
Chemistry Postgraduate Graduation - Summer 2016
16 Jun 2016
This morning saw 13 Chemistry students graduate with Ph.D. degrees.
The students involved carried out their research in the Chemistry Department, Tyndall Institute and the School of Pharmacy. Details of all students, their supervisor names and thesis titles are listed below. Well done to all.
| Name | Supervisor(s) | PhD Thesis Title |
| Dr. Jovanna Arndt |
Prof. John Wenger | Characterisation of atmospheric single particles in industrial and regional background environments using aerosol time of flight mass spectrometry. |
| Dr. Denis Beecher |
Prof. Anita Maguire & Dr. Dan McCarthy |
Chemoenzymatic routes to enantiopure hydroxytetrahydrofurans: muscarine and its analogues. |
| Dr. Atul Chaudhari |
Prof. Michael Morris | Fabrication of sub-10nm lamellar structures by solvent vapour annealing of block copolymers. |
| Dr. Michele Conroy |
Prof. Justin Holmes Prof. Peter Parbrook |
Less strain, more gain: Nano-patterning III-N thin films. |
| Dr. Anushka Gangnaik |
Prof. Justin Holmes | Electron beam lithography assisted high-resolutionpattern generation. |
| Dr. Colm Glynn |
Prof. Colm O'Dwyer | Development and characterisation of solution processed vanadium oxide and transparent metal oxide thin films. |
| Dr. Patricia Hanlon |
Dr. Stuart Collins | The application of aryne chemistry and use of alpha-diazo carbonyl derivatives in indazole synthesis with biological evaluation. |
| Dr. Roisin Kelly |
Prof. Justin Holmes | Modifying germanium nanowires for future devices: an in situ TEM study. |
| Dr. Micki Mithchell-Waseh |
Dr. Alan O'Riordan | Development and optimisation of photonic crystal based nanosensors. |
| Dr. Elaine O'Sullivan |
Dr. Florence McCarthy | Synthesis and evaluation of novel ellipticines as potential anti-cancer agents. |
| Dr. Michael Reen |
Dr. Tim O'Sullivan | The development of novel chiral tethers for controlling intramolecular aryl-aryl coupling and their application in the synthesis of gomisin M1 and analogues. |
| Dr. Fiona Spellissy |
Dr. Dara Fitzpatrick | The investigation of heavy metals and particulates absorbed on particle filters exposed to vehicle emissions at road level. |
| Dr. Hannah Winfield |
Dr. Florence McCarthy | Synthesis and evaluation of novel functionalised indoles as anticancer agents. |
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